Elisabeth Wynhausen

Elisabeth Wynhausen (23 June 1946 – 5 September 2013) was a Dutch-born Australian journalist and author. During her career, she worked as a senior journalist with The Australian and in her earlier years for The Bulletin, The National Times and The Age.

Life and career Elisabeth Wynhausen was born in Maastricht

She grew up in Manly in Sydney's northern beaches area. After a brief spell teaching at Frensham School, she joined The Daily Telegraph as a cadet in 1970 and later worked as a staff writer for The Bulletin magazine.

In 1970, she left for New York where she would work for twelve years as a foreign correspondent for The National Times and The Age newspapers

In her final years, she "remade herself as a tweeter and blogger", Kim Williams, former chief executive of News Corp Australia, said: "She was the most truthful person I've ever known... She was awesomely direct, passionate...".

Personal life Wynhausen died of pancreatic cancer on 5 September 2013 at the age of 67. Both of her parents and her brother having already died, she was survived by her niece Gabi and her nephew Jesse and their partners and children. and Manly Girls for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. The Short Goodbye: Skewed History of the Last Boom and the Next Bust, Melbourne University Press, 2011.

Articles "Children of the Cross", The National Times, 28 March – 2 April 1977. "Standoff in Buckeye and Bayou County", The National Times, 8 February 1981. "Reagan: peeling away the layers of illusion", The National Times, 29 November — 5 December 1981. "The strange casebook of Dr Sacks", The Age, 4 April 1987. "I'm not wild about Harry, but Harry's wild about me", The Sun Herald, 10 May 1992. "The brothers", The Weekend Australian: Review Section, 6–7 January 1996. "Watching the world go round", The Weekend Australian: Review Section, 6–7 January 1996. "Block Out", The Australian Magazine, 14–15 June 1997. "The end of the road", The Australian Magazine, 20–21 June 1998. "The Miller's Tale", The Australian, 15 February 2000. "Bright lights, dim city", The Weekend Australian: Review section, 26–27 February 2000. "Welcome to the Hell Hotel", The Australian, 30 March 2001. "From school lunches to lockups", The Australian, 10 May 2001. "Tricked, trafficked and terrified", The Weekend Australian, 16 August 2003. "Road to nowhere", The Australian Magazine, 20 May 2006. "In the face of hostility", The Australian, 22 November 2006. "Give it everything you've got", The Australian, 20 September 2008. "Inside the cleaning industry's dirty little secrets", The Australian, 4 October 2008.